Christian keywords Flashcards
Now/ present
Immanent
In the outer world
Transcendent
Can do no wrong
Perfect good
Impersonal
Holy Spirit
Personal
Son
Last forever
Eternal
Good and bad god decided
Judge
3 persons of god
Trinity
Evil and suffering as an argument against the existence of God
Problem of evil
God can be omnipotent and omnibenevolent and evil still exist
Problem of evil
Evil not caused by humans
Nautral evil
Evil caused by humans
Moral evil
God exists even though there is evil
Theodicy
Evil build you up to be a better person
Soul-making theodicy
Eve taking the apple
“The fall”
Good made the earth out of nothing
“Creation ex nihilo”
Believes the bible is true
Fundamentalist
Believes the bible has interpretation
Literalist
Believe the world was made how the Bible said
Creationism
Everything in the Bible is true
Inerrant
The word of god
Logos
When God judges you and if you’re going to heaven or hell
Judgement
Soul is cleanses, tempary state
Purgatory
Physical body after you die
Embodied life after death
Spiritual body after you die
Disembodied life after death
Saved by doing good work
Salvation by merit
Jesus rode the donkey to Bethlehem and leaves of a laydown for him
Palm sunday
When there was the last supper and they washed feet
Maundy Thursday
Where Jesus was taken prisoner
Garden of Gethsemane 
What Jesus did to get to salvation
Atonement
To be guilty/sorry for your sins
Repentance
Having faith in God getting you to heaven
Salvation by grace
40 days after Jesus was resurrected he ascended to heaven
Ascension
Honouring/praising God
Worship
Communicating with God, a type of worship
Prayer
Praying/worshipping in your own way
Private worship
Brain/worshipping more formally/publicly
Public worship
To plead humbly , prayers of asking for help
Supplication
Praying in tongues
Glossolalia
A ritual through which someone receives God‘s grace or blessing
Sacrament
When a baby is baptised
Infant baptism
When an adult is baptised
Believers baptism
What a baby is baptised in
Font
What an adult is baptised in
Baptismal pool
Receive bread and wine to remember Jesus
Eucharist
The process of receiving the bread and wine for the first time
Holy communion
Believing that the bread and wine turns into Jesus’s body
Transubstantiation
A trip to show your devotion to God going to a holy place
Pilgrimage
A person who goes on pilgrimage
Pilgrim
A sacrament when someone goes to confession. And shows they are sorry for their sins
Penance
Good taking human form
Incarnation
A mass on Christmas Eve
Midnight Mass
A calendar to show the different stages of advent in a church
Advent wreath
The week building up to When Jesus was crucified
Holy week
Feeling sorry for your sins
Repentance
When Christians put ash on the heads to symbolise death and to remember Jesus
Ash Wednesday
40 days leading up to Easter
Lent
Different stages of Jesus crucifixion that are placed around the church
Stations of the cross
 The candle lit during the Easter service to symbolise the light of Christ
Pascal candle
Preaching or loud praise 
Evangelism
Trying to persuade someone to change their religious belief
Proselytise
Unconditional love for all
Agape
Someone who walks around on the street at night time helping people
Street pastor
A place where food is donated and Given to those who can’t afford it
Food bank
CAFODN
Charity that plans to overcome poverty and help people in need
Baptismal candle
Symbol of faith, light a new life in Christ
Holy water in baptism
Symbol of divine life and purity cleansing from sin used by four babies forehead and it removes original sin
White garment in baptism
Sign of acceptance and belonging in the community of faith, also purity, virtue and holiness the baby wears it
The oil that symbolises you have received gods love
Oil of chrism
The oil that symbolises strengthening of the one being baptised turning away from evil temptation Sin (crossed on the head)
Oil of the catechumens
